
As you can see from the timeline, Twitter has grown quite a bit from its inception in 2006. In the beginning, Twitter (or Twttr) was created with hopes of being able to send a text message to a group of people. And now on any given day in March, there were about 460,000 accounts created.
Over the course of five years, Twitter has been used in many ways. As a social media marketing platform, Twitter has flourished. Companies have credited increased sales to the use of Twitter, and the ways customer service has certainly changed. Journalists and news organizations have broken hard-hitting news on Twitter. Just look at the most powerful tweets of 2010: After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Ann Curry, a reporter, used Twitter to convince the U.S. Air Force to allow a Doctors without Borders flight to land. (more…)
Abby Gilmore is a content strategist at Vertical Measures. When she is not creating, tweaking and developing strategies for online content, she creates her own offline content as a freelance print journalist.
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